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Economics Resources: Info./Texts

– Wikipedia:

http://www.wikipedia.com

– Google:

http://scholar.google.com

– Newspapers’ websites: e.g., BBC, NYTimes, Wall Street Journal

– LexisNexis:

http://www.lib.uconn.edu/ => “Most Used Databases” => “LexisNexis News”

– Resources for Economists:

http://www.rfe.org/

Journal Articles:

– EconLit:

http://www.lib.uconn.edu/

=> “All Databases” => “Databases by Title [E]” => “EconLit through EbscoHOST”

– JSTOR:

http://www.jstor.org

(great “starter” journals: Journal of Economic Literature and Journal of Economic Perspectives)

– Sciencedirect:

http://www.sciencedirect.com

(journals that JSTOR does not have and often up to the present issue)

Working papers:

– Research Papers in Economics (RePEc):

http://ideas.repec.org

(also has links to published journal articles)

– Social Science Research Network (SSRN):

http://papers.ssrn.com

– National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER):

http://www.nber.org/papers/

(show the email subscription)

Economics Resources: Data

• General statistics:

– US population:

• Census

http://www.census.gov

• Statistical Abstract of the US

– US government(s):

• FedStats

http://www.fedstats.gov

– European Union:

• EuroStat

http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/

• Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA):

• http://www.bea.doc.gov

• National Income and Product Accounts (NIPA)

• Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS):

• http://www.bls.gov

• Consumer Price Index (CPI)

• Consumer Expenditure Survey (CEX)

• Current Employment Statistics (CES)

• Productivity

• National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER):

• http://www.nber.org

• US business cycles

• US Federal Reserve Board of Governors:

• http://www.federalreserve.gov/rnd.htm

• Financial data (e.g., credit, flows of assets, interest rates, money supply)

• St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank:

• http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/

• FRED II (Federal Reserve Economic Data)

• Relatively long time-series of macro variables for the US (e.g., consumer price indices,

exchange rates, interest rates, money aggregates, trade flows).

• Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD):

• http://www.sourceoecd.org

=> “Statistics”

• Development, employment, health, national accounts

• The World Bank:

• http://www.worldbank.org/data

• World Development Indicators (WDI)

• Global Development Finance (GDF)

• The International Monetary Fund (IMF):

• http://www.imf.org

=> “Data and Statistics”

• GDP growth, inflation, unemployment, debt

• International Financial Statistics (IFS): exchange rates, trade, government accounts, national

Accounts

• United Nations Development Program (UNDP):

• http://www.undp.org

=> “Human Development Data”

• Human Development Index (HDI)

• Human Poverty Index (HPI)

• World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER):

• http://www.wider.unu.edu/

=> “Database”

• World Income Inequality Database (WIID)

• Comprehensive database of measures of income inequality (Gini coefficient) across several

countries and through time.

• Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS):

• http://www.ipums.umn.edu

• Vast amount of socioeconomic data

• US Census Current Population Survey (CPS):

• http://www.census.gov/cps/

• Vast amount of socioeconomic data

• National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS):

• http://www.bls.gov/nls/home.htm

• Vast amount of data on labor market activities

• Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID):

• http://www.isr.umich.edu/src/psid

• Vast amount of data on households’ income sources, employment, occupation, poverty status.

More Data Sources and Guides

• Resources for Economists on the Internet:

http://rfe.org/

• EconData.Net:

http://econdata.net/?page_id=21#microdata

• More data sources:

http://econ.williams.edu/students/onlineresources